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A comment on Ask HN: What good does running Twitter have to do with getting to mars?.

Re:Ask HN: What good does running Twitter have to do with ge... by legrande on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @10:29AM (#31167898)
Social media will play a role when we're heading to Mars. Because we need the political will to do it, and social media is good at hyping up that will. The fact we haven't put humans on Mars yet is disappointing. It doesn't matter who's running Twitter, social media will stir up hype regardless. Musk just wants a new toy to play with.
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Re:Ask HN: What good does running Twitter have to do with ge... by McLaren_Ferrari on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @10:51AM (#31168180)
> The fact we haven't put humans on Mars yet is disappointing

Statements like this exemplify how out of the touch with real life Musk supporters really are.

The obsession with vanity projects will run the U.S. into the ground.

Also the similarities are startling in the obsession and fixation

Mars = Silicon Valley border wall.

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